Jameson Distillery

Jameson Irish Whiskey isn’t the only Irish Whiskey. There are lots of others. It’s a blended whiskey.  It’s distilled three times, aged in white oak casks, and then watered to bring it to proper alcoholic content.  It’s very pleasant, no rough edges, and gets a lot of PR.  The tour of the old distillery is fun, not much different from other distillery or brewery tours in details, but you do climb around in the old wooden structures with mannequins, dioramas, machinery, and eventually wind up in a tasting room where you are given small amounts of Jameson, Jack Daniels, and a Scotch whiskey for side-by-side comparison, followed by a full measure of Jameson, which you can have neat, with ice, water, or with cranberry juice or ginger ale.  And the gift shop is fun, with a variety of variously aged product, including a station at which you can actually fill a bottle with the Special Reserve, cap it, seal it, and have your name printed on the bottle label as your private stock.  

We get there early enough so that the wait (still during the Easter weekend Bank Holiday) is only about 45 minutes.  After the mission is complete, we split up.  Paula and I head for a pub for some light lunch.